Last fall when my mother visited the US, I gave her an old laptop. Now I get questions such as this one I received last night, after I sent her some videos on YouTube:
“Why are the videos stopping in between and then getting started on their own? First two and the last one didn’t stop, but the other two stopped.”
Here’s my not so perfect answer to her question:
The videos start and stop during playback because of two reasons:
1. Speed of your connection to the internet, this may limit how much information you can receive from YouTube within a given time
2. The ability of your computer to process the information sent by YouTube and convert it to Video
Some sites help avoid this from happening by making you wait when you first click play so that there’s enough time for the site to send the information through to your computer and also giving your computer to the ability to process this information. This is called buffering. In your case, YouTube didnt do this well to ensure that there were no interruptions when you played the video.
Got a better explanation for my mom? Is there a Common Craft type of video I can send her to explain this better?
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